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Every weekend, one curious person sifts through the internet and sends you the things worth your time. Technology, culture, the indie web, and whatever else refuses to be ignored.

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Just one person paying attention.

Every week, Jamie reads widely and deeply across the internet — from Ars Technica to personal blogs you've never heard of, from the New York Times to someone's weekend project on GitHub. The result is a newsletter that connects dots nobody else is connecting.

Each link comes with context: why it matters, what's interesting about it, and how it fits into the bigger picture. It's commentary, not just aggregation.

And you can read it knowing your privacy is preserved. No tracking pixels, no click tracking, no data harvesting. Just words in your inbox.

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Who's behind this?

Jamie Thingelstad is CTO of SPS Commerce by day, but the Weekly Thing isn't about his day job. It's the output of a restless curiosity that ranges from AI and the indie web to escape rooms, vinyl records, and whatever Wikipedia rabbit hole he fell into this week.

A single issue might cover agentic engineering, a cheeseburger review, an Ethereum deep dive, and photos from a family trip to Duluth. That range is the point — and it's what keeps readers coming back.

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